Korg Trinity

Trinity

The Trinity was a major break-through synthesizer for Korg. It is a
beautiful, state of the art and superb sounding music workstation which
first appeared in 1995. Its most notable new feature to the synthesizer
industry is the super-cool 320 x 240 TouchView Graphical User
Interface....which is also the heart of the instrument! This workstation
seamlessly combines excellent digital sounds, in-depth yet intuitive
programming, real-time controllers, upward expandability and elegant
design to create the perfect all-around synthesizer.

The Trinity's sounds come out of a 24MB ROM chip with 48kHz
multi-samples of about 375 sounds and 258 drums. You can even add an
expansion board of Prophecy sounds and Z1 sounds! There's a good digital multi-mode filter
with hi/low/band pass, band reject, resonance and more. There's also 110
effects for adding life to your sounds...up to 8 simultaneous insert
effects and 2 master effects.

The Trinity has an excellent on-board sequencer allowing it to be the
center of your music studio...it's that good! And it's fun to use the
touch-screen. It's a 16-track sequencer with an 80,000 note capacity,
100 patterns and 20 songs. With the 32 voices and plenty of drum sounds,
you can use the Trinity as your all-in-one music studio! Great in the
studio, or live there are plenty of real-time controllers including a
Joystick, Ribbon controller and 2 assignable knobs and multiple sound
outputs. Expandability includes a SCSI port, Internal Hard Disk
Recording, 8Mb Flash Rom Playback-Sampler Option (which reads all Korg
and Akai sound libraries), Digital ADAT I/O option and the SOLO-TRI
Prophecy expansion board.

Trinity Plus

And now for the history... The original Trinity was
released in 1995 and had a hefty 24 MB sample ROM though it lacked some
of the features described above. Then, in 1996 the Prophecy sounds were
included in the Trinity Plus model. Following that came
the Trinity Pro which is basically the same as the Plus
but has a full 76 note keyboard. And if that wasn't enough there's
always the Trinity ProX which has 88 keys! And then came
the V3 series in 1998 (with its own entourage of Pro and ProX
keyboards). The Trinity V3 added all the
guts and glory of the Korg Z1 for even more outstanding musical sounds!
The benefit of the Prophecy and Z1 features is MOSS, Korg's
physical-modeling technique that made the Prophecy famous! The V3 or Z1
MOSS board can be added to the older Trinity models. At last it can be
said that the final Trinity is the new Triton, released in 1999.

TR-Rack

A little late to the party, the TR-Rack was a rackmount member of the Trinity family
and was released in 1998. It offered the Trinity's ACCESS technology sound engine
in a much more affordable and compact package. It also bumped up the sound ROM to 32 Mbytes
providing twice as many Programs, Combis and Drumkits as the workstation model.

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